With over 75 million baby boomers in the U.S. alone, age-related diseases are a major concern in the health care system. The connection between aging and cancer has become a pillar in medicine: we know that as we age, our ...
Biotechnology
Oct 7, 2016
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While the number of coding genes that produce proteins in humans has dwindled to 20,000 in recent years, scientists think that the dimensions of the proteome could be larger. This diversity of proteins has become one of the ...
Biochemistry
Oct 4, 2016
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An international team of researchers has discovered unexpected functions of small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) that explains the cause of some diseases. The research, led by Prof. Stefan Stamm from the University of Kentucky ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 6, 2016
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RNA splicing is a major underlying factor that links mutations to complex traits and diseases, according to an exhaustive analysis of gene expression in whole genome and cell line data. Reporting in Science on April 29, 2016 ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 28, 2016
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If you imagine a cell as a house, protein production can be a fairly relatable engineering feat. A master blueprint (DNA) holds all the information about what goes where. If you just want to build a door (protein), you only ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 25, 2016
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A new way of mapping the "transcriptome"—the collection of RNA read-outs that are expressed by a cell's active genes—has been devised by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 9, 2016
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the University of California has learned more about the process that is involved during CRISPR/Cas9 gene splicing by using a crystallization technique to get a closer look. In their ...
It arises from what scientists previously described as "junk DNA" or "the dark matter of the genome," but this gene is definitely not junk.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 7, 2014
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Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) retain their ability to self-renew indefinitely thanks to a number of proteins known as pluripotency factors. These factors must be modified at the RNA level before they are turned into proteins ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 29, 2014
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A study led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shines a new light on molecular tools our cells use to govern regulated gene expression. The study was published on line in advance ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 10, 2013
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